Re: [newbie-it] File Midi
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 22:50:09 +0200 nicola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Se mi potessi dare ancora una piccola spintina te ne sarei grato. Non sono molto pratico, ed ho pensato che la directory migliore per installare i sorgenti dei driver fosse /usr/src/linux-2.4.8-26mdk/alsa-driver-0.9.0beta10/ inoltre avevo pensato di disinstallare per precauzione gli rpm di mdk8.1 che contenevano alsa (sono solo due...) ma appena ci provo il software manager mi avverte che per soddisfare le dipendenze deve togliere un'altro centinaio di pacchetti, tra i quali koffice, chronium, kdemultimedia, kdegames, tuxracer, e un'altra quantità di librerie e programmi da far paura, ma è normale? Dei warning non preoccuparti, anche a me escono ma poi funziona tutto (d' altra parte sono dei beta!). Io metto i pacchetti in /usr/src e li scompatto li', controlla poi di avere il symlink linux che punta alla dir dei sorgenti, se non c' e' puoi crearla da /usr/src con il comando ln -s linux-2.4.8-26mdk linux. Gli rpm DEVI disinstallarli (per evitare casini) con il comando rpm -e --nodeps nomepacchetto (spero che la sintassi sia esatta, controlla). Inoltre disattiva (nel caso ci fosse) alsasound (o alsa, non so come si chiama) tra i servizi al boot. Ciao -- Sebastiano
Re: [newbie-it] File Midi
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 09:47:12 +0200 Tommaso Leddi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arrivato a questo punto, mi viene fuori questo messaggio: checking for directory with kernel source... /usr/src/linux checking for kernel version... The file /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h does not exist. Please, install the package with full kernel sources for your distribution or use --with-kernel=dir option to specify another directory with kernel sources (default is /usr/src/linux). Mi sembrava di aver capito che non bisognava ricompilare il kernel, ma forse vuole avere lo stesso i sorgenti o almeno la struttura di directory. Ma i moduli dove sono? Sono spaesato, devo procurarmi i sorgenti del kernel che sto usando? Forse ti mancano gli headers del kernel, controlla con rpm -q kernel-headers (e kernel-sources) se non li hai installali dai cd di mdk e crea il link linux in /usr/src che punta ai sorgenti. Ciao -- Sebastiano
Re: [newbie-it] Latex
ciao a tutti qualcuno che usa latex mi sa dire come si fa ad inserire e ridemensionare un immagine jpg? non trovo nulla neanche nei manuali online! = Sposati: se trovi una buona moglie sarai felice; se ne trovi una cattiva, diventerai filosofo. Socrate __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie-it] Latex
ciao a tutti qualcuno che usa latex mi sa dire come si fa ad inserire e ridemensionare un immagine jpg? non trovo nulla neanche nei manuali online! = Sposati: se trovi una buona moglie sarai felice; se ne trovi una cattiva, diventerai filosofo. Socrate __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie-it] Latex
Sicuramente ci sarà un modo + intelligente ed economico ma io intanto ti consiglio, se non l'avessi ancora provato, di trasformarlo in EPS e poi lo aggiusti come vuoi. Ciao, Germano Il 11:47, giovedì 04 aprile 2002, luigi pinna hai scritto: ciao a tutti qualcuno che usa latex mi sa dire come si fa ad inserire e ridemensionare un immagine jpg? non trovo nulla neanche nei manuali online! = Sposati: se trovi una buona moglie sarai felice; se ne trovi una cattiva, diventerai filosofo. Socrate __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie-it] Latex
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, luigi pinna wrote: ciao a tutti qualcuno che usa latex mi sa dire come si fa ad inserire e ridemensionare un immagine jpg? non trovo nulla neanche nei manuali online! Ho paura che non si possa 8cio' non vuol dire che ne sono sicuro). Piu' o meno uso il latex per un oretta al giorno. Quello che puoi fare e prendere la figura jpg trasformarla in eps e poi includere la figura eps. Ciao luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie-it] kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
Ragazzi, durante una sessione di KDE con la 8.1 prima è sparito il desktop, poi il pannello, poi si è bloccato il mouse... i tre tasti per spegnere non funzionavano in nessun modo, allora ho spento tutto sperando che tutto si riavviasse, invece all'avvio dopo la schermata di LILO e dopo una certa serie di messaggi soliti compare questo messaggio: EXT2-fs : ide0 (3,7) : couldn't mount because of unsupported optional feature (8000800). Kernel panic: Unable to mount rootfs on 03:07. che cosa posso fare? Il dischetto di riavvio non parte Magari qualcuno puo' dirmi che cosa è accaduto? Non vi sono dati importanti nella home e quindi sto meditando una nuova installazione, pero' prima mi piacerebbe sentire il vostro parere: la situazione è recuperabile? Mi piacerebbe sapere cosa cavolo è accaduto. Grazie per eventuali risposte. Mauro Ps. (aiuto, aiuto aiuto)!
Re: [newbie-it] mp3
xmms On Wednesday 03 April 2002 11:27 pm, you wrote: -- Salve, -- qualcuno conosce un buon programma (Frontend) per la conversione da mp3 -- a wav? -- -- Grazie. -- -- -- -- -- Caro amico, tra breve cambierò indirizzo di posta elettronica. Il nuovo indirizzo è [EMAIL PROTECTED], è già attivo, quindi puoi aggiornare il tuo programma di rubrica. Gli indirizzi email [EMAIL PROTECTED] e [EMAIL PROTECTED] saranno validi fino al 30/04/2002. A presto.
[newbie-it] Sorgenti Linux
Ho da poco installato sul mio computer Linux Mandrake 8.1 (ho solo il disco 1 di Installazione uscito allegato ad una rivista). Ho tuttavia riscontrato non pochi problemi nell'utilizzo delle risorse del sistema (la stampante non funge, così come il mio Linmodem Connexant HSF). Mentre per la stampante (Epson Stylus Scan 2000) non ho ancora trovato una soluzione (la porta parallela tace, sigh!), per il modem ho trovato un driver che dovrebbe funzionare (hsflinmodem-4.06.06.02mbsibeta02022600-1.src.rpm). Il problema è che andando ad installare il modulo, il compilatore non trova i sorgenti del kernel: non esiste la cartella /usr/etc/linux!!! Ho trovato qualche sorgente nella directory /usr/include/linux tuttavia sembra che non siano quelli giusti. Domanda: qualcuno mi sa dire se sul disco 1 di installazione ci sono i sorgenti ed io non li so riconoscere oppure c'è bisogno degli altri due dischi Non mi consigliate di scaricare il kernel dal web perchè x 20 Mb dovrei restare collegato tutta la notte (ricordate che ho un linmodem 56K). Grazie in anticipo dell'aiuto e... scusatemi se ci capisco poco!!! Sono pronto ad imparare! :-)
Re: [newbie-it] java
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hai ragione, sono stato un po' troppo vago! controlla dove in quale directory hai installato java. Poi scrivi echo $PATH in console. Ti verrà stampato un elenco di diectory sulla stessa linea divise da un punto e virgola. Controlla che sia presente il percorso completo alla directory dove hai installato java. Se non c'è scrivi la seguente riga a console: export PATH=percorso dir java/bin Così divrebbe funzionare. La variabile d'ambiente $PATH serve per dire al sistema dove deve cercare i comandi che tu gli impartisci. Se provi a cancellarla (export PATH=)non funziona nessun comando. non provarci sennò devi riavviare la macchina! mmmhh. in queste cose ho sempre paura. Non e` che export PATH=percorso dir java/bin ti sostituisce l'attuale PATH con percorso dir java/bin ? Io, a occhio darei export PATH=$PATH:percorso dir java/bin In /etc/profile, dove viene risistemato, la sintassi e` questa. :-) ciao, Andrea
Re: [newbie-it] Sorgenti Linux
Massimiliano Violante wrote: Ho da poco installato sul mio computer Linux Mandrake 8.1 (ho solo il disco 1 di Installazione uscito allegato ad una rivista). . Domanda: qualcuno mi sa dire se sul disco 1 di installazione ci sono i sorgenti ed io non li so riconoscere oppure c'è bisogno degli altri due dischi dovrebbero essere in un file kernel-sources-bla.bla.rpm che credo sia nel secondo cd. :-( puoi controllarlo con il mandrake-software-center Non mi consigliate di scaricare il kernel dal web perchè x 20 Mb dovrei restare collegato tutta la notte (ricordate che ho un linmodem 56K). puoi sempre scaricare a rate con wget -c -np ftp://sito/../kernel-source..rpm; blocchi quando vuoi e riprendi da dove hai lasciato. In pratica lo metti in kppp da lanciare alla connessione. Pero` ti consiglio di aspettare che le riviste siano piene di Mandrake-8.2 ciao, andrea PS mi rifiuto categoricamente di andare in posta a fare spedizioni!!! ma se stai a Roma e passi dal mio istituto ti posso regalare un doppione del secondo (e forse terzo) CD
R: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2, dove?
varie persone hanno provato a installare MDK 8.2? Vorrei sapere dove l'avete trovata: l'avete comprata, trovavata in qualche cd di qualche rivista o la avete scarivata da internet? presa da internet. Se non hai un buon collegamento e hai fretta di averla, Ho un collegamento ISDN, ma credo che per quanto sia veloce, non lo sia abbastanza per renderlo conveniente. Non ho una grossissima fretta, posso aspettare che esca in edicola (avendo visto varie persone parlare della 8.2, credevo che fosse già in edicola) puoi cercare tra i vecchi messaggi di it.comp.os.linux.annunci. C'e` parecchia gente che spedisce a casa, per un prezzo ragionevole, i cd scaricati delle varie distro. Provo a darci un'occhiata. Senti anche il LUG piu` vicino a te. Scusa, cos'è un LUG? Grazie dei suggerimenti! Di Fresco Marco _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
R: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2, dove?
Anche se nn 6 interessato alle iso Effettivamente non ho il masterizzatore! :-/ ma vuoi i file di installazione lì puoi trovare tutto Darò un'occhiata! Grazie mille! Di Fresco Marco _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
R: [newbie-it] [REPOST2] [LUNGA e 1/2 OT] Lettere drive in Win dopo installazione linux
Hai provato a togliere il caricamento dei driver del cd-rom da dos? Win 98 non dovrebbe averne bisogno. Al momento ho (ri)tolto Linux, ma quando riproverò a installarlo (forse la 8.2) proverò questa soluzione. Se utilizzi il dos, cioè il riavvio in modalità ms-dos, dovresti immettere le informazioni per fargli caricare questi driver solo quando vai in modalità ms-dos pura. Non saprei come fare: per quanto so i vari modi di avvio di win (normale, modalità provvisoria, dos, ecc.) utilizzano gli stessi config.sys e autoexec.bat! Per il comando presente nel'autoexec.bat posso eseguirlo a mano (o creare un altro file .bat), ma per il comando nel config.sys non so come avviarlo manualmente! :-( Ciò dovrebbe risolvere i tuoi problemi. Grazie mille del suggerimento. Di Fresco Marco _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
R: [newbie-it] [REPOST2] [LUNGA e 1/2 OT] Lettere drive in Win dopo installazione linux
Se c'è qualche utente che come me tiene tutti e due i sistemi operativi e che ha avuto lo stesso problema, mi saprebbe dire come ha risolto? I sistemi M$ hanno uno strano algoritmo per assegnare le lettere ai dispositivi di memoria. Non hanno solo quello di strano! In ogni caso sia da win che da dos c'e` il modo di forzare l'assegnazione. Per esempio, puoi dirgli che lo zip sia Z:. Nel pannello di controllo sotto la voce Sistema ho trovato il modo di assergnare la lettera ai drive, ma al ravvio non cambiava niente. Adesso non frequento piu` certe cattive compagnie :-) Anch'io sto cercando di uscire dal tunnel, ma credo che mi ci vorrà ancora un po' di tempo per mollare il maledetto Win! Di Fresco Marco _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
[newbie-it] modem interno
Cari amici, questo è il mio primo giorno da pinguino, sono molto entusiasta ma naturalmente cominciano i problemi per un utente assai inesperto quale sono io... ...dunque il problema è che il sistema non legge il modem interno del mio pc che fare?? il modello del modem è MOD, MDM, DFAX, V90, GVC, DIM trascrivo ciò che leggo nella ricevuta inviatami dalla DELL Vi ringrazio di già..
Re: R: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2, dove?
Alle 19:24, giovedì 4 aprile 2002, Di Fresco Marco ha scritto: Senti anche il LUG piu` vicino a te. Scusa, cos'è un LUG? Linux User Grup ora non ricordo quale sia l'indirizzo esatto.. ma con una ricerca anche con virgili lo dovresti trovare Ciao , Tom
Re: [newbie-it] mp3
Il gio, 2002-04-04 alle 21:55, psycheye ha scritto: xmms On Wednesday 03 April 2002 11:27 pm, you wrote: -- Salve, -- qualcuno conosce un buon programma (Frontend) per la conversione da mp3 -- a wav? -- -- Grazie. -- -- -- -- Fantastico... ma come si fa? :-P Grazie, un saluto.
Re: [newbie-it] modem interno
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Emiliano La Licata wrote: Cari amici, ...dunque il problema è che il sistema non legge il modem interno del mio pc che fare?? il modello del modem è MOD, MDM, DFAX, V90, GVC, DIM trascrivo ciò che leggo nella ricevuta inviatami dalla DELL Ciao, io comincerei con il dare la caccia ad alcuni dati: -Che computer hai? Portatile? -Che distribuzione hai installato? Il comando lspci oppure lspci -nn oppure ancora lspci -vv dovrebbe darti una lista di componenti del tuo coputer tra cui potrebbe esserci anche il modem. Prova e magari spedisci il pezzo di output che lo riguarda. Infine una volta che sai esattamente cosa dice lspci ti puoi collegare a www.linmodems.org e vedere se ci sono in giro drivers. Se non li trovi li puoi provare via google. Ciao Luigi -- Not all who wander are lost (Tolkien) Luigi De Pascale: Indirizzo: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata U.Dini Via Bonanno Pisano 25/B, 56126 Pisa, ITALY Tel.: +39/050/844745 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie-it] modem interno
Alle 23:58, giovedì 4 aprile 2002, hai scritto: Cari amici, questo è il mio primo giorno da pinguino, sono molto entusiasta ma naturalmente cominciano i problemi per un utente assai inesperto quale sono io... ...dunque il problema è che il sistema non legge il modem interno del mio pc che fare?? il modello del modem è MOD, MDM, DFAX, V90, GVC, DIM trascrivo ciò che leggo nella ricevuta inviatami dalla DELL Vi ringrazio di già.. Dovresti darci più indicazioni su marca e modello. Genericamente i modem interni (chiamati anche winmodem) mancano sostanzialmente di una parte hardware che viene sostituita dal driver specifico per il modello. I driver, il più delle volte sono sviluppati solo per l'ambiente windows. Fanno eccezione alcune marche ed alcuni modelli, quali, ad esempio, Lucent con la serie LT che è pienamente supportata. Dovresti, inoltre, farti un giro sul sito www.linmodems.org dove si può accedere alle spiegazioni e al download dei driver pèer i modelli disponibili. Ciao Sandro -- Dr. Sandro Porrazzini Mandrake Linux 8.1 on Pentium III 688 Mhz Linux Machine # 103048 Linux User # 203143
Re: [newbie-it] Latex
luigi pinna wrote: ciao a tutti qualcuno che usa latex mi sa dire come si fa ad inserire e ridemensionare un immagine jpg? non trovo nulla neanche nei manuali online! Puoi includere quello che vuoi, il problema è il formato dvi che non supporta altre immagine che eps. Alcuni pacchetti commerciali supportano l'inclusione di immagini effettuando una conversione al volo durante la fase di creazione del dvi. un buona lettura è questo tutorial http://it.metr.ou.edu/latex/docs/epslatex.pdf . Ciao e buon lavoro. Leonardo
Re: R: [newbie-it] MDK 8.2, dove?
Di Fresco Marco wrote: . Senti anche il LUG piu` vicino a te. Scusa, cos'è un LUG? Linux User Group http://www.linux.it/LUG/ vedi il telug(Teramo) anche se e` lontano mi sembra si fossero organizzati per spedire CD (?) ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] [REPOST2] [LUNGA e 1/2 OT] Lettere drive in Win dopo installazione linux
Di Fresco Marco wrote: .. In ogni caso sia da win che da dos c'e` il modo di forzare l'assegnazione. Per esempio, puoi dirgli che lo zip sia Z:. Nel pannello di controllo sotto la voce Sistema ho trovato il modo di assergnare la lettera ai drive, ma al ravvio non cambiava niente. .. non c'e` anche un'opzione memorizza/rendi permanente/... ? ciao, andrea
Re: [newbie-it] mp3
Beh,devi selezionare un plugin nella sezione IN/OUT,nelle preferenze, che si chiama diskwriter, o qualcosa del genere!Segliendo la configurazione di quel plug-in segli la directory dove memorizzare la tua musica. Ciao ENx Il gio, 2002-04-04 alle 21:55, psycheye ha scritto: xmms On Wednesday 03 April 2002 11:27 pm, you wrote: -- Salve, -- qualcuno conosce un buon programma (Frontend) per la conversione da mp3 -- a wav? -- -- Grazie. -- -- -- -- Fantastico... ma come si fa? :-P Grazie, un saluto. -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Metti a buon frutto i tuoi crediti: fai un regalo a Papà! Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=371d=5-4
[newbie] RealPlayer
Hi, Where can I find RealPlayer for LM 8.1. I'm having trouble finding it on RealNetworks' site, but I remember seeing it there a while back. TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] how do I keep threaded messages collapsed in Evolution
I am running the Evolution that come with 8.2. I am trying to keep all the message collapsed so I can see more messages subject. Right now any messages with more then 5 reply would take over about half of my message area. Also, is there any way to delete a whole thread of messages by just collapse the thread and hit delete? It seems to me by doing that it just delete the first message. TIA Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] how do you...
Hi, blackbox has styles - they contain info about colors, fonts, etc. The style files are usually in /usr/share/Blackbox/styles The format is similar to the Xresources files. You can read about it in the man page of blackbox HTH Moshe * Damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020404 09:44]: .enlarge blackbox fonts? looks pretty fast, but the menus are so small i'm going blind! i can't find the config files/options for this... thanks Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer
Using google: http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10145-100-2555655.html For any Mandrake version I believe as it's RPM. James Hi, Where can I find RealPlayer for LM 8.1. I'm having trouble TIA, Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Open Source Code (follow-up)
Thanks to all who sent their response to my question. I have another question, I think this is a ridiculous question, but I have nothing to do but to ask this question just to know, I know that if we compile a program like an assembly program, it will make another file excluding the source code, its either an .exe file or a .com file, depending on the structure of the program, or in c programming, when we compile a program, I know that it will make an exe file. If it so, why is it that most of the files in Linux has no extension name, particularly no executable file like in windows e.g. (scandisk.exe)? __ www.edsamail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Source Code (follow-up)
will make an exe file. If it so, why is it that most of the files in Linux has no extension name, particularly no executable file like in windows e.g. (scandisk.exe)? The extensions are a Windows thing and don't in any way apply to linux. A program (or file) can be executable simply by changing the permissions using chmod. I believe (but may be wrong) that the C-compilers in Linux generate executable binaries in the ELF format. James _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Source Code (follow-up)
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 17:15, Anthony V Guillen wrote: Thanks to all who sent their response to my question. I have another question, I think this is a ridiculous question, but I have nothing to do but to ask this question just to know, I know that if we compile a program like an assembly program, it will make another file excluding the source code, its either an .exe file or a .com file, depending on the structure of the program, or in c programming, when we compile a program, I know that it will make an exe file. If it so, why is it that most of the files in Linux has no extension name, particularly no executable file like in windows e.g. (scandisk.exe)? OK Simple, really, file extensions are there for typing files, and there are other ways to do that in linux/UNIX. In particular, an _executable_ bit is available in file permissions... well actually three such bits, one for owner, one for members of owner's group, and one for the rest of the universe. Open a terminal window. cd /usr/bin ls l* and you will see a list of files. Those shown in green with an asterisk following their name are executable. Executable files are NOT NECESSARILY files which have been compiled to dynamically linked (like exe) or statically linked (like com) files... .bat files are included as well, and something like this will be on the first line #!/bin/sh for shell programs #!/usr/bin/perl for perl programs #!/usr/bin/env python for python programs--all of those call script interpreters and then run the script in the file. Xtart is an example of a python program, located at /usr/bin/Xtart which executes fast enough that it is unlikely ever to be recoded into C. For a real treat, look at man bash The shell which executes batch files can do stunningly powerful things... Look also at /etc/rc.sysinit for examples of the sort of analysis programmable. printerdrake is an example of an extremely powerful perl program Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re[2]: [newbie] Icon Question
Hi, One way to do it is to right-click on the icon and then click on properties. A dialog box will open with the icon on it, so click on the icon now and another box will open. There you will see a lot of other icons or you can choose a .png or .xpm file. Pick up a new icon and it's done. I've received 3 identical answers, but it doesn't work here! Nothing happens when I click on the icon in the dialog box. I can change the icon by right clicking and then selecting Edit File Type. Unfortunately, this also changes all of the other, similar, non-embedded icons on the desktop. (Sorry for late reply, ISP's mailserver didn't want to send my mail) :-( You are supposed to click Properties, not Edit File Type. Then click the icon image and choose another one. This really should work. Isn't this a thread from about two months or so ago? Yes it is, as I said in the mail my ISP's mailserver didn't want to send mails to the list so I had to wait till they fix it and it took the two months. I thought it still might help someone. Bye Roman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 22:43, john rigby wrote: Ha there folks, Well, a new machine and same result. I purchased the full bottle M8.0 and need to get SOME value back :-) Many people complained of it not being very successful and it failed for me several times on 3 machines. It would seem to install ok to a degree - but only in text mode, despite my trying to ensure it would be graphic. I have now even bought a Jetway moboard as I was told it was lux friendly. SIS 630T chipset It has O/b video AGP4x shared mem amount immaterial as I've seen so far. O/b sound AC'97 P3 667 Chip No graphics install by M8.0 No sound BTW: I've never been able to get sound working on any prior system. Advice requested please: 1. In the manuals I can find no reference to going GUI from dreaded Terminal mode. Can one? I tried F1 and select other options at bootup but it will not accept any change from L3 to L5 2. As I paid for the presentation of 1000's of programs with the retail Powerpak, is there a chance that I could use say a 2 disk minimalist set of 8.1 ( or 2) to get a start and then install the programs I want from the 8.0 Set? Note: In Australia north of Brisbane we not only put our clocks back, but Telecom can't see why I REALLY need to be on the Internet. I average a D/l speed of 1.8 overall ( I quit when it often gets to 1.0 or less) and lose about one in two of any large (10Megs+) downloads. I've officially been told voice capability is good enough and they aren't obliged to demonstrate more than 9600 Bd capability unless I want to spend a few hundred per week on ADSL or... so using the disks, not to mention the $140 spent on them seems a good idea. 3. What is the vote nowadays - my figures show 50/50 for 8.1 and 8.2 re user install/working satisfaction. 4. If Mandrake can't for some reason detect a graphics card, should it not say so? Or will it simply default to a Terminal/text install? Thanks and Cheers, John I have a Jetway 630TCF with the SiS 630 chipset. Install comes up Graphic without any effort on my part since the video supports Framebuffer. With the 530 and 8.0 there are some problems on some implementations usually solved by setting options in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Option sw_cursor Option no_bitblt Option FastVRam It makes no sense for the install to come up text without any graphics. But if the install does, then your CDs are seriously damaged (at least one run of the pressed CDs had trouble with a RAMDisk). It might try to come up text if you have less than 64M RAM since the 630 shares 8M of main memory with video memory which makes a 32M setup really offer only 24M to the system. In that case you would be fortunate to install at all. IN any event, 630 from Jetway with the supercheap VIA C3 - 733 processor and 64M RAM installs just fine here. And because there is shared video memory, RAM is VERY relevant. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NetBEUI on Linux?
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 15:15, Randy Kramer wrote: Bill Davidson wrote: I seriously doubt it. NetBEUI is an old protocol that Microsoft hardly supports anymore. If at all. On Wednesday 03 April 2002 05:53 pm, Wally wrote: Is there a way to get my Mandrake 8.1 laptop to see my Windows desktop using NetBEUI? Can't use TCP/IP at the moment because the desktop's ip is assigned via the cable modem. Two points: To Bill: IMHO, the bigger question is whether Linux can support NetBEUI -- I know NetBEUI works in Win95, and I'm fairly certain it works in Win98, and is probably still supported in more recent versions. To Wally: The fact that the desktop's IP is assigned via the cable modem should not necessarily prevent you from seeing the Windows desktop. I think there are ways to assign two IPs to the same network card, and there was a post about this not too long ago on either the newbie or expert list. IIRC, civileme described the setup as the poor man's router (although I may have that mixed up with another thread). Randy Kramer There is a thread on the expert list and another on the cooker list explaining how to assign more than one IP to a single card, but it really is better to activate connection sharing and use two cards for security reasons as well as fewer network collisions. NetBEUI (NetBIOS Extended User Interface) is not a Microsoft exclusive; it was in fact developed by IBM in the 1980s. No support nor is ther likely to be. Instead of approaching the security problem by creating an entirely different network, TCP/IP was used locally. This is secure, because the IP addresses reserved for local networks will not be relayed by an internet router. It is also capable of higher security levels using ssh connections. So 1. There is no need for NetBEUI in linux. It is possible of course to resolve IPs to NEtBEUI names with nmblookup -U xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa -A #(Yes install Samba) And LinPopup is available for WinPopup type apps. There was an announcement by Network Storage Manufacturer Procom in May of 2000 that they would have NetBEUI for linux and that it would be available for download. A search of http://www.procom.com does not find any current news of the product. 2. There is no impetus to write a WHOLE NEW SET of tools to do communication across a different network. Remember the mailbox is used for the next desk over and Outlook is used for the internet in Microsoft. Two mailing systems to learn for the power of one, is what a so-called secure local network costs in M$. At least that is how some Microsoft users explained it to me. The last time I really worked with M$ software was about the time NetBEUI matured and was not updated--like about 1997. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Open Source Code (follow up 2)
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[newbie] Cant boot lilo or Grub.. Very strange error.
Hi good people.. I have just bought a new 41 gig IBM hard drive for my old heap of a home server. (IBM 300PL. 233mmx HX chipset, 160MB ram, TNT2 Video.) Anyway, I installed the drive, the 300PL saw it as an 8.4 gig drive.. (and thats after I flashed the latest IBM bios.) Still, I thougt if it works as an 8.4 that will do.. But the Mandrake 8.2 install saw the full 41 gig and partitioned and installed accordingly. All went well, including setting up X and everything else.. so I had lilo written to the MBR and went to restart my new install. No good, it couldn't find the boot record.. kept askin for a bootable media. So I tried writing lilo to /dev/hda5 which is my /root partition, but that resulted in the same thing.. (is it possible that I can only load lilo to the /root partition if there is no seperate /boot partition?) After makin everything XFS and then discovering there was no way to make a boot disk, I reloaded with everytyhing as Reiserfs except /boot and /root which were ext3.. so now the only way to get my system up and running is via a boot disk, although it works perfectly from that point on, including X and all... How can I got my system to boot from the hard disk??? does anyone know what I could try? I found some utils on the IBM hard drive site for this, but they all turned out to be winblows stuff, even though you could make their disks from linux, they still wanted to format everything in fat or fat32 and load dos TSR's.. which is not alot of good in a linux system. Any help would be wonderful.. many thanks kindest regards Frank Hauptle. PS.. I apologise for not posting much lately, but I still have not got a domain that mandrake accepts for posting mail, and yahoo via the web is a pain in the tookus.. so I only post now when I'm desperate, at least until I find a good easy method.. thanks again. :-) __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Fwd: Re: [newbie] Mandrake8.2/X-CD-Roast Configuration Problem
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake8.2/X-CD-Roast Configuration Problem Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 23:14:34 +0100 From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wednesday 03 April 2002 17:58, you wrote: John, I didn't realise you were just going to type it in! If you do 'cdparanoia --help', one of the things it says is: -d --force-cdrom-device dev : use specified device; disallow autosense So (and I'm not quite sure of the syntax) you might neeed something like: #cdparanoia -vB -d /dev/cdrom2 1- /root/tmp/name I've probably got that a bit wrong, but try variations on it. Richard Thanks, once again Richard, and so it proved to be. I did :- [root@localhost root]# cdparanoia -vB -d /dev/scd0 1- /root/tmp/name cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) (C) 2001 Monty [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Xiphophorus Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ Checking /dev/scd0 for cdrom... Testing /dev/scd0 for cooked ioctl() interface /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. Testing /dev/scd0 for SCSI interface generic device: /dev/sg0 ioctl device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Found an accessible SCSI CDROM drive. Looking at revision of the SG interface in use... SG interface version 3.1.22; OK. CDROM model sensed sensed: MITSUMI CR-48X9TE 1.0C Checking for SCSI emulation... Drive is ATAPI (using SCSI host adaptor emulation) Checking for MMC style command set... Drive is MMC style DMA scatter/gather table entries: 256 table entry size: 32768 bytes maximum theoretical transfer: 3566 sectors Setting default read size to 13 sectors (30576 bytes). Verifying CDDA command set... Expected command set reads OK. Table of contents (audio tracks only): tracklength begincopy pre ch === 1.13012 [02:53.37]0 [00:00.00]no no 2 2.13577 [03:01.02]13012 [02:53.37]no no 2 3.12682 [02:49.07]26589 [05:54.39]no no 2 4.16787 [03:43.62]39271 [08:43.46]no no 2 5.15842 [03:31.17]56058 [12:27.33]no no 2 6.15922 [03:32.22]71900 [15:58.50]no no 2 7. 9299 [02:03.74]87822 [19:30.72]no no 2 8.11355 [02:31.30]97121 [21:34.71]no no 2 9.13162 [02:55.37] 108476 [24:06.26]no no 2 10.18207 [04:02.57] 121638 [27:01.63]no no 2 11.13342 [02:57.67] 139845 [31:04.45]no no 2 12.13222 [02:56.22] 153187 [34:02.37]no no 2 13.16422 [03:38.72] 166409 [36:58.59]no no 2 14.33460 [07:26.10] 182831 [40:37.56]no no 2 15.19527 [04:20.27] 216291 [48:03.66]no no 2 16.15577 [03:27.52] 235818 [52:24.18]no no 2 17.11014 [02:26.64] 251395 [55:51.70]no no 2 18.12925 [02:52.25] 262409 [58:18.59]no no 2 19.12077 [02:41.02] 275334 [61:11.09]no no 2 20.11019 [02:26.69] 287411 [63:52.11]no no 2 TOTAL 298430 [66:19.05](audio only) Ripping from sector 0 (track 1 [0:00.00]) to sector 298429 (track 20 [2:26.68]) outputting to /root/tmp/track01.name (== PROGRESS == [ | 013011 00 ] == :^D * ==) outputting to /root/tmp/track02.name (== PROGRESS == [ | 026588 00 ] == :^D * ==) etc, etc, etc, outputting to /root/tmp/track19.name (== PROGRESS == [+ + | 287410 00 ] == :^D * ==) outputting to /root/tmp/track20.name (== PROGRESS == [ | 298429 00 ] == :^D * ==) Done. One further question though, suppose I wanted to cashe only certain audio tracks rather than the lot, can I select them individually. I'm guessing, but perhaps you replace the 1- with a commer seperated list of track numbers.? Anyway this proves that cdparanoia and cdrecord are OK. The original problem seems likely to be with xcdroast. I wonder whether LM8.1 version of roast would install and work with LM8.2 cdrecord ? Any libraries problems ? John ... PPS , Thursday 4th April 2002 BST I guess others have got here a lot sooner than me, but :- [root@localhost root]# xcdroast -d /dev/scd0 ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/mkisofs ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/readcd ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/bin/cdda2wav ** CRITICAL **: file eazel-theme-draw.c: line 1640 (draw_flat_box): assertion `height = -1' failed. Question, is this something one can fix , or do you need a complete new download and
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
On Thursday 04 April 2002 02:43, you wrote: Ha there folks, Well, a new machine and same result. I purchased the full bottle M8.0 and need to get SOME value back :-) Many people complained of it not being very successful and it failed for me several times on 3 machines. It would seem to install ok to a degree - but only in text mode, despite my trying to ensure it would be graphic. I have now even bought a Jetway moboard as I was told it was lux friendly. SIS 630T chipset It has O/b video AGP4x shared mem amount immaterial as I've seen so far. WRONG... THIS is your problem, you need to specify the ram being used video as subtracted from the overall ram,ie linux mem=118 (this being a machine w/128 ram chip, and 8 meg for video ram and a little extra to be safe. O/b sound AC'97 P3 667 Chip No graphics install by M8.0 No sound BTW: I've never been able to get sound working on any prior system. Advice requested please: 1. In the manuals I can find no reference to going GUI from dreaded Terminal mode. Can one? I tried F1 and select other options at bootup but it will not accept any change from L3 to L5 2. As I paid for the presentation of 1000's of programs with the retail Powerpak, is there a chance that I could use say a 2 disk minimalist set of 8.1 ( or 2) to get a start and then install the programs I want from the 8.0 Set? Note: In Australia north of Brisbane we not only put our clocks back, but Telecom can't see why I REALLY need to be on the Internet. I average a D/l speed of 1.8 overall ( I quit when it often gets to 1.0 or less) and lose about one in two of any large (10Megs+) downloads. I've officially been told voice capability is good enough and they aren't obliged to demonstrate more than 9600 Bd capability unless I want to spend a few hundred per week on ADSL or... so using the disks, not to mention the $140 spent on them seems a good idea. 3. What is the vote nowadays - my figures show 50/50 for 8.1 and 8.2 re user install/working satisfaction. 4. If Mandrake can't for some reason detect a graphics card, should it not say so? Or will it simply default to a Terminal/text install? Thanks and Cheers, John --- _ All *MY* communications are certified virus-free. Why not yours? Ask here for full info - *and* get it free. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.343 / Virus Database: 190 - Release Date: 22/03/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] unusual partitioning question
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 01:44, you wrote: Zlatko Savic wrote: hey everyone, i have a weird question and i am trying to ask it without confusing everyone, even myself. I installed my MD 7.1 some time ago with the following setup: /(root) on /dev/hda5 swap on /dev/hda6 /home on /dev/hda7 Now I am trying (if it is possible, that is) to separate my /boot directory from the /(root) . Basically, without reinstalling, formatting or doing anything to my system I want to separate /(root) and /boot that are on /dev/hda5 so that I get something like: /boot on /dev/hda5 /(root) on /dev/hda6 swap on /dev/hda7 /home on /dev/hda8 I have played around previously with some ideas and they all lead me to a complete reinstall of the system so that is why I am asking for your help. The reason for this question is my desire to make a dual linux boot without completely deleting my current linux install. Thanks in advance, Zlatko Savic Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Well, you can do it if they are ext2 filesystems using ext2resize which is available in tarball form (the rpms are unlikely to install on 7.1, because rpm has changed versions, and so has glibc and gcc and ...) You would make a new hda patrition FOLLOWING the resized /. But for dual-boot you do NOT need a separate /boot All you need to do is drag the kernel and the initrd (vmlinuz-(kernelnumber)-(buildinfo) and initrd.img-(kernelnumber-buildinfo)) from the /boot of the new install to the /boot of the old install, then use DrakConf to redo your boot (and the drop down lists will include the new kernel and initrds) making sure the root identified in the new boot is the root of the new install. For luck, run /sbin/lilo as root then reboot and you should have the dual-boot established. More info on this approach is at http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=473lang=en and I did author that article. Civileme I guess the answer to the question , why dual boot Linux OS's with a seperate /boot partition, is because that is the way DrakX expects to find it and as such it is the way DrakX installs everything for you without having to go through all the unnecessary workarounds afterwards. All you have to do is make sure that your lilo stanzas are correct in the second Linux OS install so that they include the kernel/initrd files of the first linux Os install, then it's a straight and simple bootup into either Linux OS of your choice. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] NetBEUI on Linux?
Is there a way to get my Mandrake 8.1 laptop to see my Windows desktop using NetBEUI? Can't use TCP/IP at the moment because the desktop's ip is assigned via the cable modem. Wally, I have a similar situation, but with LM on the notebook and W2k on the desktop. ( my notebook doesnt travel alot theough ). Like someboy here suggested in the theread,I also suggest that you make LM your gateway to the internet,you cna do that either by: 1) using internet connection sharing from Mandrake control center. 2) Or by editting the /etc/Bastille/bastille-firewall.cfg file in case you are running bastill ofcourse ( and you can know if you are running bastill or not either by looking for a line that says: starting bastille firewall [OK] or by running the command ( as root: /etc/rc.d/init.d/bastille-firewall status in the console ( u should see a set of lines scrolling through the screen if it is working ). read my thread on this where LOTS of this List's Knights helped me out on this :) it was under the name: [newbie] iptables / ipchains / bastille ??!! you will find some of the files that need to be configured and some very usefull info. but even without making linux your gateway, I belive you can still make win your gateway with little effort,( I heard that from somebody , yet I'm not aware of how much is this little effort :) Good Luck. - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Michaels Minutes (WAY OT)
On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 19:12:55 +1200, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheesh couldnt you have just posted the bleeding link... what a waste of bandwidth. Two minutes at the website gave me: http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes.php I'm probably going to ruffle a few feathers here but I think it needs to be said. Does anybody seriously think this will be a good thing for Linux and free software? I most certainly don't. Why pay US$99 when you can get CodeWeavers CrossOver Office for $54.95, which you can install on virtually any modern distro? CodeWeavers give all of their code back to the community, while Lindows don't. Lindows is highly insecure: everything runs as root and users are even discouraged from creating a root password. All we need are a few easily-written exploit scripts for this poor excuse of an OS and open source as a whole (not just Lindows) will be given a bad name. GNU/Linux virii will become a widespread reality (on Lindows, that is), fueling opposition to open source. Antivirus and security companies will jump on this. People will be duped by their FUD-laden advertising and will pay big bucks for software they don't even need. I can see this becoming some sort of vicious cycle. Until Lindows gains some decent security I shall continue to wish for it to suffer a horrible, horrible death. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody. -- Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
AW: [newbie] Re: Michaels Minutes (WAY OT)
let them try it , let them suffer i say ... there are alot of m§ widooze user in this world , they suffer every day w/ their 'great' os ... let lindows be the same ... i think OSD will distant themself for sure from lindows in this case - keep the X in your system - -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von Sridhar Dhanapalan Gesendet: Donnerstag, 4. April 2002 09:45 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [newbie] Re: Michaels Minutes (WAY OT) On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 19:12:55 +1200, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sheesh couldnt you have just posted the bleeding link... what a waste of bandwidth. Two minutes at the website gave me: http://www.lindows.com/lindows_michaelsminutes.php I'm probably going to ruffle a few feathers here but I think it needs to be said. Does anybody seriously think this will be a good thing for Linux and free software? I most certainly don't. Why pay US$99 when you can get CodeWeavers CrossOver Office for $54.95, which you can install on virtually any modern distro? CodeWeavers give all of their code back to the community, while Lindows don't. Lindows is highly insecure: everything runs as root and users are even discouraged from creating a root password. All we need are a few easily-written exploit scripts for this poor excuse of an OS and open source as a whole (not just Lindows) will be given a bad name. GNU/Linux virii will become a widespread reality (on Lindows, that is), fueling opposition to open source. Antivirus and security companies will jump on this. People will be duped by their FUD-laden advertising and will pay big bucks for software they don't even need. I can see this becoming some sort of vicious cycle. Until Lindows gains some decent security I shall continue to wish for it to suffer a horrible, horrible death. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody. -- Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE3.0
Hello: What is the best method of installing KDE 3.0. I've got in downloaded and want to install it on my 8.2 system, but want to do it in the best possible way. Any tips or hints? Thanks, Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cant boot lilo or Grub.. Very strange error.
On Thursday 04 April 2002 03:54 am, Frank H offered these words: Hi good people.. I have just bought a new 41 gig IBM hard drive for my old heap of a home server. (IBM 300PL. 233mmx HX chipset, 160MB ram, TNT2 Video.) Anyway, I installed the drive, the 300PL saw it as an 8.4 gig drive.. (and thats after I flashed the latest IBM bios.) Still, I thougt if it works as an 8.4 that will do.. But the Mandrake 8.2 install saw the full 41 gig and partitioned and installed accordingly. All went well, including setting up X and everything else.. so I had lilo written to the MBR and went to restart my new install. No good, it couldn't find the boot record.. kept askin for a bootable media. So I tried writing lilo to /dev/hda5 which is my /root partition, but that resulted in the same thing.. (is it possible that I can only load lilo to the /root partition if there is no seperate /boot partition?) After makin everything XFS and then discovering there was no way to make a boot disk, I reloaded with everytyhing as Reiserfs except /boot and /root which were ext3.. so now the only way to get my system up and running is via a boot disk, although it works perfectly from that point on, including X and all... How can I got my system to boot from the hard disk??? does anyone know what I could try? I found some utils on the IBM hard drive site for this, but they all turned out to be winblows stuff, even though you could make their disks from linux, they still wanted to format everything in fat or fat32 and load dos TSR's.. which is not alot of good in a linux system. Any help would be wonderful.. many thanks kindest regards Frank Hauptle. PS.. I apologise for not posting much lately, but I still have not got a domain that mandrake accepts for posting mail, and yahoo via the web is a pain in the tookus.. so I only post now when I'm desperate, at least until I find a good easy method.. thanks again. :-) __ Since all the trouble with the substandard drives IBM produced Iwouldn't buy an IBM HDD. But I don't think the drive was the problem. I had a similar problem on first boot of a clean install on a 60 GB Maxtor. MDK 8.2 saw the drive; the BIOS didn't, and the only way to boot the system was from the floppy. Also on 'second' first boot after flashing the BIOS on my BX6 Rev. 2 so that it could see the new drive. I did a complete fresh install and used Linux Native for /boot, everything else is Reiser. Perfect results since. It ain't a server but the problem was remarkably similar. I think I remember reading that ext3 was still buggy in some ways, or just not quite there yet. I have no clue why this happened but the method of install I used the third time worked. One of the 'old hands' can probably explain it. In the meantime what I have works just fine so. C. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Source Code (follow up 2)
On Thu, 04 Apr 2002, Anthony V Guillen wrote: %_Is there any difference in the syntax and the compiler use in c programming assembly programming in windows and in linux? or the compiler itself? As a rule syntax is ANSI 'C'. Why do you ask? Linux uses gcc, usually windows uses visualk C++ -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnwtworks.com Front Street Networks LLC - 203-785-0699 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven CT, 06513-3203 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:33:50 -0600, Steven Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: What is the best method of installing KDE 3.0. I've got in downloaded and want to install it on my 8.2 system, but want to do it in the best possible way. Any tips or hints? Thanks, Steve It should be simple. Download all the RPMs and put them in their own directory. Enter the directory and type 'rpm -Uvh *rpm'. KDE3 installs into /opt, so you can have both KDE3 and KDE2 installed side-by-side. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan You have no privacy. Get over it. -- Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cant boot lilo or Grub.. Very strange error.
FH Hi good people.. FH I have just bought a new 41 gig IBM hard drive for my FH old heap of a home server. (IBM 300PL. 233mmx HX FH chipset, 160MB ram, TNT2 Video.) FH Anyway, I installed the drive, the 300PL saw it as an FH 8.4 gig drive.. (and thats after I flashed the latest FH IBM bios.) FH Still, I thougt if it works as an 8.4 that will do.. FH But the Mandrake 8.2 install saw the full 41 gig and FH partitioned and installed accordingly. FH All went well, including setting up X and everything FH else.. so I had lilo written to the MBR and went to FH restart my new install. FH No good, it couldn't find the boot record.. kept askin FH for a bootable media. FH So I tried writing lilo to /dev/hda5 which is my /root FH partition, but that resulted in the same thing.. (is FH it possible that I can only load lilo to the /root FH partition if there is no seperate /boot partition?) FH After makin everything XFS and then discovering there FH was no way to make a boot disk, I reloaded with FH everytyhing as Reiserfs except /boot and /root which FH were ext3.. so now the only way to get my system up FH and running is via a boot disk, although it works FH perfectly from that point on, including X and all... FH How can I got my system to boot from the hard disk??? FH does anyone know what I could try? FH I found some utils on the IBM hard drive site for FH this, but they all turned out to be winblows stuff, FH even though you could make their disks from linux, FH they still wanted to format everything in fat or fat32 FH and load dos TSR's.. which is not alot of good in a FH linux system. FH Any help would be wonderful.. FH many thanks FH kindest regards FH Frank Hauptle. FH PS.. I apologise for not posting much lately, but I FH still have not got a domain that mandrake accepts for FH posting mail, and yahoo via the web is a pain in the FH tookus.. so I only post now when I'm desperate, at FH least until I find a good easy method.. FH thanks again. :-) First of all, when you are using a journal filesystem, reiser, XFS etc. I suggest you have a seperate partition for /boot, and never install lilo to the head of / partition. EXT3 is slow, try reiser or XFS. Your trouble seems to be related to bios, that is not capable of defining the size of your disk, which is common for many of the old boxes. Still lilo overcomes this usually. I suggest you boot from a floppy disk, and not get much deeper on this size thing. What may look bad, is the delay caused by the floppy. To overcome this, boot your system, put in a fresh floppy, open up /etc/lilo.conf, change boot=/dev/hda (or something similiar) to boot=/dev/fd0, save, type lilo to make it write lilo to the disk. It will make things a lot faster. Regards, Onur Kucuk _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] x-cdroast broken, non-gui alternatives - HELP !
I've found xcdroast is broken in 8.2 when trying to copy audio cds. Here's what happens when you rely on the gui front end to hide the mssy details. Can someone spell out for me how to duplicate an audio CD using the the command line alternatives. I won't bore the list with my failed attempts which have resulted in creating drink-coasters. I would be very greatful. Joe ps. If anyone has had an alternate experience with cd roast and audio cds please contact me off-list and we can go in to the errors I am getting and post a summary to the list resolving this issue. Thanks again. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] x-cdroast broken, non-gui alternatives - HELP !
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:21:13 -0800 joe wrote: I've found xcdroast is broken in 8.2 when trying to copy audio cds. Here's what happens when you rely on the gui front end to hide the mssy details. Can someone spell out for me how to duplicate an audio CD using the the command line alternatives. Someone posted this option a few days ago: cdparanoia -vB 1- ~/tmp/name cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0,0 -pad ~/tmp/track* Paul -- If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.2 - Sylpheed 0.7.4 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
Thanks! I had forgotten how to do that. Interesing that you can run both. How would you start one or the other. Right now, of course, I'm running 2 and would like to try three. Once installed how would I run 3.0? Thanks again, Steve On Thursday 04 April 2002 07:16 am, you wrote: On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 06:33:50 -0600, Steven Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: What is the best method of installing KDE 3.0. I've got in downloaded and want to install it on my 8.2 system, but want to do it in the best possible way. Any tips or hints? Thanks, Steve It should be simple. Download all the RPMs and put them in their own directory. Enter the directory and type 'rpm -Uvh *rpm'. KDE3 installs into /opt, so you can have both KDE3 and KDE2 installed side-by-side. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Michaels Minutes (WAY OT)
On Thursday 04 April 2002 03:45 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Does anybody seriously think this will be a good thing for Linux and free software? I most certainly don't. Why pay US$99 when you can get CodeWeavers CrossOver Office for $54.95, which you can install on mostly because the average person won't be able to install an RPM of codeweavers. just ask john. ;-) root password. All we need are a few easily-written exploit scripts for this poor excuse of an OS and open source as a whole (not just Lindows) will be given a bad name. GNU/Linux virii will become a widespread reality (on Lindows, that is), fueling opposition to open source. i say mandrake should write a windows emulation layer in 9.0. it should be easy, when turned on it will choose a random amount of time between 1 minute and 4 hours, after which it will reboot without warning. a plugin could be made to randomly delete a file after displaying a virus message every (random number) of email downloads. lets start taking windows compatability seriously! -- Computers are like air conditioners they stop working properly if you open windows. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] MP3-ripper
Hi, What's a good MP3-ripper? One that just takes a cd as input and outputs the MP3s. -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 downloads sites
I am using Road Runner and have downloaded all three disks within about 30 minutes. I think the problem may lay in the connection on your computer or on the sites you are using and not in the download. I downloaded from Georgia Tech. John --- Sender: John P. ChambersBusiness: Discovery Center, Inc. Hm. Ph. (713) 465-4209 Bus. Ph.: (713) 963-0043 Texas Licenses:Fax Ph.: Same - CALL FIRST LMSW-ACP, LMFT, 6024 Fairdale LPC, LCDC Houston, Texas 77057 http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpc/ Main Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hounix, Inc. (Unix User Group) Houston, Texas Past President Virtual FoxPro User Group (VFUG) Public Relations Mgr. http://www.vfug.org/ Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AFP (Active FoxProPages) http://www.afpweb.com/ Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member HAL-PC BOD and FoxPro SIG Flunky http://www.hal-pc.org/~jpc Email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Solution Group, MS Solution Providers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Slater Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 7:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 downloads sites On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:30:56 -0500 Dan Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a DSL line and download speeds are usually very good, but the site ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/iso/ where I am downloading disk one for over 24 hours now, is rediculous! I know it's not me. I am doing other downloads while waiting that just speed right along... Any suggestions? Dan B I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago--every download site was either full or really slow. I did manage a download today from the mirror in Illinois (ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/iso/). I got disc 1 in a little under 2 hours (t1 @ work). Todd -- Todd Slater 8:28pm up 7 days, 21:55, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.12, 0.14 You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself. (Galileo) --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.343 / Virus Database: 190 - Release Date: 3/22/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.343 / Virus Database: 190 - Release Date: 3/22/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2
I have now done a clean install of 8.2, and most of the problems from before are gone, but while running KDE and Gnome (might in other window managers but not so far) the entire machine will freeze except for my mouse and sound if music was playing at the time. And I'm forced to use the reset button. Is this just a bug in 8.2 that can be fixed? Will I have to update something? From: Roland Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Help List Server <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2 Date: 03 Apr 2002 19:57:47 -0500 I am having similar problems after doing the same from LM8.1. The video is very flaky and icons do not show up in apps properly and when I click the drop down for the different folders evolution just disappears. Roly On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 09:22, Blood Slap wrote: I've been using Mandrake 8.1 for a while now, and just upgraded to 8.2. The installation went fine, but the first few times I tried logging on to KDE or Gnome, they would either freeze (forcing me to Crtl+Alt+Backspace), stop loading at the blue desktop, or freeze my entire machine forcing me to reset. I've tried booting to "Old Linux" in Lilo, but I have the same problems. Also, I have'nt had any major display problems with X before, but now whenever I play any 3D games (Tux Racer, GLTron), they are extremely choppy and unplayable. In the installation it detected my video card (ATI Rage 128) just like before, and I chose the newest version of X with 3D acceleration, which I think is the same I have been using. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: Click Here Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] divx again ...
good eve to all of you a divx content question again i have mplayer , correctly installed . i can play mpeg 1/2 and normal avis w/o probs ... everything is working but i can't play divx ... i downloaded divx4linux50-20020304 from the divx.com site and installed it with root looked ok but if i play divx avi in mplayer onley the sound works :) help me ! ... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Yamaha ymf724 sound, ML8.2
On Thursday 04 April 2002 21:46, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, I have problems with sound. I have sound when I play a cd, but for nothing else. In drakconf it looks like it has found the right sound card, but when I run the configuration tool and it plays the 8-bit sample I hear nothing. In the shell it outputs No volume mixer available. So I'll not be able to adjust volume. So what should I do? Well Jesper, try this : Install Kmix (it's on the CD's somewhere), open it, and adjust the rulers. Especially the PCM-one. HTH Kaj Haulrich Denmark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer
El jue, 04-04-2002 a las 06:58, James Thomas escribió: Using google: http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10145-100-2555655.html For any Mandrake version I believe as it's RPM. James Hi, Where can I find RealPlayer for LM 8.1. I'm having trouble TIA, Guilherme Cirne or you can try www.real.com/unix/linux took me a while to find it, they provide no links to it, they do not support it... you almost feel they can't live without us ;o) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
Damian wrote: actually there is a better way. last night i installed KDE 3.0 by getting all RPMS, opening a terminal and doing a urpmi ./+ it asked me for the three MDK cd's and got a lot of packages to solve dependencies... it worked fine, tho kde 3 has bugs.. :o( Damian what does opening a term typing urpmi ./+ do then exactly? So you still have to d/l all the RPM's of KDE3 yourself urpmi just takes care of the deps? And if so will it still install KDE3 beside your existing KDE2.x? :) Tough questions I know, but I'm sure you'll pull through this crisis for me Damian ;p I have confidence in your non-Fudding abilities Femme -- Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] RealPlayer
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 03:17, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Where can I find RealPlayer for LM 8.1. I'm having trouble finding it on RealNetworks' site, but I remember seeing it there a while back. TIA, -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Making it simple--source for Realplayer: ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/freshrpms/misc/RealPlayer-8.0-1.i386.rpm L8R, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] [OT] icecast/ogg
Has anybody gotten Icecast going to stream mp3 or ogg (which I think is only possible with Icecast2)? I was able to stream mp3, but the bitrate was way too high, and I couldn't get lame to encode at 28.8 or 33.6. -- Todd Slater 5:38pm up 8 days, 19:06, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.08, 0.08 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening...The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role. (William Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Icon Question
Roman Korcek wrote: snip Isn't this a thread from about two months or so ago? Yes it is, as I said in the mail my ISP's mailserver didn't want to send mails to the list so I had to wait till they fix it and it took the two months. I thought it still might help someone. Bye Roman Damn, and i thought it was an April fools joke -- Molecule, n.: The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an ion ... -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Open Source Code (follow up 2)
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 18:19, Anthony V Guillen wrote: Is there any difference in the syntax and the compiler use in c programming assembly programming in windows and in linux? or the compiler itself? Yes, there are large differences. gcc is closer to ANSI compliant, but has all sorts of add-ons. f2c translates fortran programs, and p2c does it for pascal. Objective-C is embedded, and the switches for compilation would fill a small volume with their documentation. To make it look something like the Visual C or some of the other Windows-compatible compilers, you need to use an integrated development environment, like kdestudio, or KDevelop (Much better, BTW in KDE3 which is NOW available for 8.2). gIDE and wedit are also available and free, and Kylix is reasonably priced from Borland. The library functions are much more comprehensive and richer in linux, mainly because the system is capable of so much more, and the key to good C programming is as always having a good handle on the library functions and system calls. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 03:33, Steven Spears wrote: Hello: What is the best method of installing KDE 3.0. I've got in downloaded and want to install it on my 8.2 system, but want to do it in the best possible way. Any tips or hints? Thanks, Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Put all the RPMs in a single directory Open up a terminal window and su to root and cd to your directory with the KDE rpms Now do these urpmi unixodbc (and from the reply install every match with urpmi urpmi postgresql (same activity again, and include all the -devels) urpmi MYSQL (go at it again, installing everything) NOW rpm -ivh *rpm Take notes, you will get some instructions. The procedure will hang on a warning message, refusing to tell you it is completed. Hit the Enter key once for the system prompt. That's it... It will show up as KDE3 on the kdm login screen and it will show up as 11 KDE on the choices Xtart presents from a console. Unles you save the session, it will ask for styles EVERY time you login which can be a pain. The soundserver is, to say the least, flaky. Programs like xmms will continue to work but don't bother reporting known bugs about KDE sound. Some of the login messages and panels may crash with a crash message if your security is High or Higher. KDE3 is making too many assumptions about permissions and open sockets. About par for the course for a .0 type release from KDE. Some things will improve with 3.1, but the new KDE is for the most part, smooth and nice. Liquid is not ready or KDE3 is not ready for liquid at this time. Some beautiful theming from Mosfet will just have to wait a little longer. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 13:07, FemmeFatale wrote: Damian wrote: actually there is a better way. last night i installed KDE 3.0 by getting all RPMS, opening a terminal and doing a urpmi ./+ it asked me for the three MDK cd's and got a lot of packages to solve dependencies... it worked fine, tho kde 3 has bugs.. :o( Damian what does opening a term typing urpmi ./+ do then exactly? So you still have to d/l all the RPM's of KDE3 yourself urpmi just takes care of the deps? And if so will it still install KDE3 beside your existing KDE2.x? :) Tough questions I know, but I'm sure you'll pull through this crisis for me Damian ;p I have confidence in your non-Fudding abilities Femme It installs and runs separately. It is KDE3 on the kdm selection and 11 KDE on Xtart from console. You need about 90 Mb space in / or /opt and if you do not have a separate /opt and / doesn't have that much room, then do this: 1. Open a terminal 2. su to root 3. mkdir -p /usr/opt ln -s /usr/opt /opt exit before you install. It seems to run well as security level 2 and to have problems at 3 or higher. Some of the new open sockets do not appear to get the right permissions for intewrprocess communications at higher security levels. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] no subject
Salve a tutti. Ho riscontrato dei gravi problemi con iptables sotto manndrake 8,2 realise. In sintesi dopo n'istallazione pulita partendo da disco formattato il servizio iptables non si avvia. Ho cercato tra i servizi attivi e non ci sta. Ho provato a farlo partire e non parte. Ho dato dei comandi per settare il nat alla solita maniera , in 8,1 va da 6 mesi circa, ma nulla!! Mi dice che devo aggiornare o iptables o il kernel. Ho anche prvato a disistallare iptabe e a reistallarlo sempre dai cd di Mandrake 8,2 ma non cambia nulla. Mah! Come posso risolvere? Qualcun'altro ha riscontrato problemi simili? Anche altri mei amici hanno avuto lo stesso problema. Io posseggo un Athlon 800 che con Mandrake 8,1 é sempre andato a gonfie vele. Grazie. Alberto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
tester wrote: what does opening a term typing urpmi ./+ do then exactly? So you still have to d/l all the RPM's of KDE3 yourself urpmi just takes care of the deps? And if so will it still install KDE3 beside your existing KDE2.x? :) Tough questions I know, but I'm sure you'll pull through this crisis for me Damian ;p I have confidence in your non-Fudding abilities Femme It installs and runs separately. It is KDE3 on the kdm selection and 11 KDE on Xtart from console. You need about 90 Mb space in / or /opt and if you do not have a separate /opt and / doesn't have that much room, then do this: 1. Open a terminal 2. su to root 3. mkdir -p /usr/opt ln -s /usr/opt /opt exit before you install. It seems to run well as security level 2 and to have problems at 3 or higher. Some of the new open sockets do not appear to get the right permissions for intewrprocess communications at higher security levels. Civileme *laughs* Damian flaked on me, so Civilme to the Bat-Rescue! Into the KDE-Mobile my linux comrades! TY. I will think about installing it... I suspect with my record I'll break a lot of things if I do though so... i'll install it on a separate Linux install on a separate partition. Femme -- Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
2002 4? 4 ??? 16:43??: Ha there folks, Well, a new machine and same result. From your previous mails and also this one, I got the impression that you are one of the most unlucky person from earth and its suburbs. Pascal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] MP3-ripper
It's included in Mandrake. If you want a GUI frontend for it, Grip is a good choice. On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 21:22:26 +0200 (MEST), Jesper Nyholm Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Where to get? -- Jesper Nyholm Jensen On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Thursday 04 April 2002 11:23, Jesper wrote: What's a good MP3-ripper? One that just takes a cd as input and outputs the MP3s. cdparanoia -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] divx again ...
On 04 Apr 2002 19:56:33 +0200, - addy däudsch - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good eve to all of you a divx content question again i have mplayer , correctly installed . i can play mpeg 1/2 and normal avis w/o probs ... everything is working but i can't play divx ... i downloaded divx4linux50-20020304 from the divx.com site and installed it with root looked ok but if i play divx avi in mplayer onley the sound works :) help me ! ... There are instructions on how to get Divx5 working on the MPlayer site (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/). Here's what it says: DivX5 - MPlayer supports it in two ways: by using the official libdivxdecore.so binary library available at avifile.sf.net, or by using the well-known libavcodec. The latter is the recommended for its speed, simplicity and stability ! Neither of them supports encoding currently. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Not why only graphical - Why no graphical?
Pascal Goguey wrote: 2002 4? 4 ??? 16:43??: Ha there folks, Well, a new machine and same result. From your previous mails and also this one, I got the impression that you are one of the most unlucky person from earth and its suburbs. Pascal Pascal... ROFLOL -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Lost messages on VC12 - RESOLVED
List, Just in case anyone else is interested. My problem stemmed from the fact that I must have chosen LOW as my security level, instead of MEDIUM. On msec level 3 or greater the syslog messages are written to /dev/tty12 by default. So to solve my problem of the missing messages, I just ran `msec 3` in a console as root. Afterward I was able then to figure out that the real fix was adding the line `*.* /dev/tty12` to the end of my /etc/syslog.conf file. This is what redirects all *.* syslog messages to /dev/tty12. Thanks, Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2
It is not mobility or pro, it's just an ATI Expert 2000 Rage 128, but I will check the config file. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] problems with 8.2 On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 09:57:44 -0700 Michael Kovary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have now done a clean install of 8.2, and most of the problems from before are gone, but while running KDE and Gnome (might in other window managers but not so far) the entire machine will freeze except for my mouse and sound if music was playing at the time. And I'm forced to use the reset button. Is this just a bug in 8.2 that can be fixed? Will I have to update something? Is yours a straight Rage128 card? Not a mobility or Pro or some other variation. It should not be there but just in case check your /etc/X11/X86Config-4. In the module section if there is an entry for v41, either # it out or remove it. Restart X and your problem will be gone. If the above was not the cause of your problem please post your XF86Conf-4. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Quicken clone
Lee wrote: Dick You might try MyBooks from appgen.com. I set it up on 8.1 to consider for my business package, was impressed with the features, and still haven't switched from quickbooks pro. Looks good though. Lee On Monday 25 March 2002 09:50 am, Dick Mazierski wrote: I am trying to find a clone for Quicken. Gnucash is said to be one but it does not offer the check writing/printing that Quicken does. Does anybody know of either a shareware or commercial check printing program for Linux, so that I don't have to reformat my disks and re-install that dreaded windows?? TIA Dick Mazierski -- Registered Linux abuser #223705 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Lee - I just purchased the download of MoneyDance and it is what I need for my personal account. Many thanks for the lead. Also, Appgen called and thanked me for the order - haven't seen this from many software outfits!! Thanks again. Dick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE3.0
El jue, 04-04-2002 a las 19:07, FemmeFatale escribió: Damian wrote: actually there is a better way. last night i installed KDE 3.0 by getting all RPMS, opening a terminal and doing a urpmi ./+ it asked me for the three MDK cd's and got a lot of packages to solve dependencies... it worked fine, tho kde 3 has bugs.. :o( Damian what does opening a term typing urpmi ./+ do then exactly? So you still have to d/l all the RPM's of KDE3 yourself urpmi just takes care of the deps? And if so will it still install KDE3 beside your existing KDE2.x? :) Tough questions I know, but I'm sure you'll pull through this crisis for me Damian ;p I have confidence in your non-Fudding abilities Femme hi Femme. well actually there is a typo in my post. it's urpmi ./* urpmi is like rpm -ivh ( install package ) but it checks dependencies, if a needed package is available in mandrake cd's, it asks for them to solve deps automatically. urpmi ./* means install everything in this directory. you can also use urpmi to install packages that are within MDK cd's directly. for example, you just open a terminal and type urpmi openoffice it will open your cdrom drive asking for your first cd download edition and will install OO. see ya. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE menu
Dear All, I have been running LM8.1 since November on my desktop and just about a week ago a new problem presented itself. Whenever I boot into KDE the menu will say no entries even though there are many entries that were there before. If I reboot then the menu shows all of the entries. In other words I have to boot up once then reboot in order to get my menu you to show all of the applications that are there. Is there a way to fix this? Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Fwd: KDE menu
Dear All, I sent the message below some hours ago but it did not show up yet so I am trying again. Thanks. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: KDE menu Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:48:03 -0600 From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear All, I have been running LM8.1 since November on my desktop and just about a week ago a new problem presented itself. Whenever I boot into KDE the menu will say no entries even though there are many entries that were there before. If I reboot then the menu shows all of the entries. In other words I have to boot up two or three times in order to get my menu you to show all of the applications that are there. Is there a way to fix this? Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] divx again ...
El jue, 04-04-2002 a las 21:33, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió: On 04 Apr 2002 19:56:33 +0200, - addy däudsch - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good eve to all of you a divx content question again i have mplayer , correctly installed . i can play mpeg 1/2 and normal avis w/o probs ... everything is working but i can't play divx ... i downloaded divx4linux50-20020304 from the divx.com site and installed it with root looked ok but if i play divx avi in mplayer onley the sound works :) help me ! ... There are instructions on how to get Divx5 working on the MPlayer site (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/). Here's what it says: DivX5 - MPlayer supports it in two ways: by using the official libdivxdecore.so binary library available at avifile.sf.net, or by using the well-known libavcodec. The latter is the recommended for its speed, simplicity and stability ! Neither of them supports encoding currently. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan yeah, but latest MPlayer snapshot is very buggy, i've recently joined the MPlayer mailing list, and there are tons of bug reports being teken care of. i did an install myself and i can't even open it if i use the -framedrop parameter. just segfaults all over the place. wouldn't be too strange if an older version worked better for addy. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Lost messages on VC12 - RESOLVED
Thanks Jim, i wanted to know how that worked. Thanks for the update. Paying attention Femme? Jim Fazio wrote: List, Just in case anyone else is interested. My problem stemmed from the fact that I must have chosen LOW as my security level, instead of MEDIUM. On msec level 3 or greater the syslog messages are written to /dev/tty12 by default. So to solve my problem of the missing messages, I just ran `msec 3` in a console as root. Afterward I was able then to figure out that the real fix was adding the line `*.* /dev/tty12` to the end of my /etc/syslog.conf file. This is what redirects all *.* syslog messages to /dev/tty12. Thanks, Jim -- Dear Freshman, You don't know who I am and frankly shouldn't care, but unknown to you we have something in common. We are both rather prone to mistakes. I was elected Student Government President by mistake, and you came to school here by mistake. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
AW: [newbie] divx again ...
¨thx alot ! should read more carefully : blame on me ! so will try with the other lib , and btw : until now mplayer looks very fine , got no problem , except that o can't view one of the skins it freezes , but that's all -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Im Auftrag von Damian Gesendet: Freitag, 5. April 2002 05:37 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [newbie] divx again ... El jue, 04-04-2002 a las 21:33, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió: On 04 Apr 2002 19:56:33 +0200, - addy däudsch - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good eve to all of you a divx content question again i have mplayer , correctly installed . i can play mpeg 1/2 and normal avis w/o probs ... everything is working but i can't play divx ... i downloaded divx4linux50-20020304 from the divx.com site and installed it with root looked ok but if i play divx avi in mplayer onley the sound works :) help me ! ... There are instructions on how to get Divx5 working on the MPlayer site (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/). Here's what it says: DivX5 - MPlayer supports it in two ways: by using the official libdivxdecore.so binary library available at avifile.sf.net, or by using the well-known libavcodec. The latter is the recommended for its speed, simplicity and stability ! Neither of them supports encoding currently. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan yeah, but latest MPlayer snapshot is very buggy, i've recently joined the MPlayer mailing list, and there are tons of bug reports being teken care of. i did an install myself and i can't even open it if i use the -framedrop parameter. just segfaults all over the place. wouldn't be too strange if an older version worked better for addy. Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] [Fwd: New Bill attempts to regulate hardware, softwaredevelopment]
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 22:06, dfox wrote: This affects everybody unilaterally, and unless people become proactive and oppose the Democrats and their apocalyptic police state laws, the face of the computer industry will *become* a police state. FWIW there's also other things that may be peripherally involved. One that doesn't impact Linux per se, but could have a side impact is the licensing of mp3s -- specifically internet radio, for instance shoutcast, icecast, live365.com. (personally I prefer that to local FM radio, but that's not really the issue.) Commercial radio (at least here in the US) tends to try and monopolize what people listen to in much the same way as the big corporations try and monopolize what people can run on their computers. The future of internet radio is at stake as well because of organizations like RIAA. They seem to have adopted a licensing structure that threatens the existence of many of these small 'mom pop' type organizations - and favoring the marketing-driven corporate broadcasting as the only available choice. Stop humming. BMI may be listening. These points are well taken. I also found your tar command line for doing file by file filesystem copies very handy. Kudos! L8R! LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Addendum to Previous LICQ Post
On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 18:23, FemmeFatale wrote: This was also accidentally not sent to the list. *sigh* I'm batting 0 for... oh n/m. I never understood that stupid saying anyway. I guess it requires that you have an intimate understanding of baseball; which I never really did; mostly because of lack of interest. For some reason television sports bores me to tears; so anyway, FWIW I don't know what the saying is or means either. :) Cheers, LX -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] antialiased font under enlightenment
is there antialiased font under enlightenment when yes , how to activate - keep the X in your system - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Fwd: KDE menu
El jue, 04-04-2002 a las 23:21, Marcia escribió: Dear All, I sent the message below some hours ago but it did not show up yet so I am trying again. Thanks. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: KDE menu Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:48:03 -0600 From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear All, I have been running LM8.1 since November on my desktop and just about a week ago a new problem presented itself. Whenever I boot into KDE the menu will say no entries even though there are many entries that were there before. If I reboot then the menu shows all of the entries. In other words I have to boot up two or three times in order to get my menu you to show all of the applications that are there. Is there a way to fix this? Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Marcia maybe a misconfiguration/bad file i'm pretty sure that you can fix it by deleting your /home/(whoever)/.kde and /home/(whoever)/.kde2 directories. this will reset all your kde configs. but keep this as a last resort if you had a very customized desktop, since it will leave you with KDE looking like recently-installed. HTH Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Dialin in Kppp
Hi, I installed MDK 8.2 on a compter of a bussiness partner of me who wanted to get rid of virusses yesterday. (Yeah, anonther one!! hèhè ;-)) They have an isdn terminal adapter Elsa tango 1000, wich is an external, serial device. As far as I understand this TA should be configured as a normal analog modem in for instance Kppp, am I right? Next question is; when dialling in, there must be a '0' dialled first to get on the external phone network followed by the rest of the phonenumber of the ISP. How do I configure this in Kppp?? TIA -- Gerard van Winssen Error: Keyboard not connected Hit any key to continue Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
